@inbook{DeBartolo07ASEE, 
title={Traveling Engineering Activity Kits Ð Energy and the Environment: Designed by College Students for Middle School Students}, 
abstractNote={A 2005-06 Multidisciplinary Senior Design team created a series of classroom activities 
designed to teach middle school students about engineering topics related to energy and the environment. 
This traveling engineering activity kit (TEAK) project consists of five kits, each based on a different 
energy-related theme: Heat Transfer, Electrical Energy, Wind and Water, Solar Power, and Chemical Energy. 
Each kit contains an Academic Activity to teach a background concept, a Hands-On Activity to allow 
students to apply the concepts learned, and a Take-Home Activity that can be done independently at home. 
The design team also developed instruction manuals suitable for non-engineers, lesson plans, handouts, 
and post-activity quizzes to assess participants learning. To date, the kits have been used by over 100 
6th graders as well as dozens more students participating in on-and off-campus outreach programs. 
This paper describes how and why undergraduate engineering students were involved in designing the 
TEAK educational tool, including a detailed list of customer needs and design specifications that were 
defined during their design process. Discussions are also included on the basic TEAK structure, kit 
descriptions, and assessment results to date.}, 
author={DeBartolo, Elizabeth and Bailey, Margaret and Zaczek, Melissa and Schriefer, Timothy and
 Kelley, Patrick and Ramaswamy, Mallika and Ryczko, Nicholas}, year={2007}}